Although he dominated the first two free practice sessions, Lewis Hamilton suffered a significant setback with the team’s announcement that they needed to change his gearbox. As it had not completed six consecutive races, this results in an inevitable five-place grid penalty.<\/p>\n
Here is something that will not improve the matters for the British driver, who has to contend with a 14-point deficit behind the championship leader, Sebastian Vettel. While some have speculated about a possible consequence of the collision between the two men in Baku, the Silver Arrows have announced that they have ruled out this possibility.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton knows he is already condemned to an attacking race on the smallest circuit of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mercedes has detected an issue with Lewis Hamilton’s gearbox and will be forced to change it for the remainder of the weekend. He will therefore be penalized five grid places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":37880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[841,964,1335],"class_list":["post-11290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-hamilton","tag-mercedes-amg-f1","tag-red-bull-ring"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n